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Monday, 3 February 2014

Benefit Girl Meets Pearl

If you're a regular reader of my blog, then you'll know that I'm a highlighter junkie. I absolutely love adding some shimmer to my cheekbones to complete my makeup look. I've been a long-time fan of Benefit's liquid highlighters (High Beam was my first high-end makeup product ever!), and now I'm loving Benefit's Girl Meets Pearl* ($36 CDN/0.4 oz). Read on to hear my full thoughts on this highlighter...

"What it is: A soft, golden pink, liquid-pearl highlighter.

What it does: For a delectable glow, fancy up with this golden-pink liquid pearl luminizer. Its sheer, light-reflecting formula in a fresh, raspberry scent glides on smoothly for a breathtakingly radiant complexion. Wear it alone for a youthful dewy glow, or over makeup for lustrous "pearlessence."

Benefit's Girl Meets Pearl comes packaged in a beautiful purple chrome tube that twists up to reveal the product. I honestly would have preferred to have seen Girl Meets Pearl in either a tube or the same nail polish type of bottle that Benefit's High Beam and Sun Beam are packaged in. I'm not sure why Girl Meets Pearl is in this type of packaging, but I find that it can be a little bit messy. Packaging aside, this liquid highlighter is absolutely beautiful! Girl Meets Pearl is a pink based highlighter with a golden sheen & shimmer. I normally opt to use my liquid highlighters mixed into my foundation to give a glowy look to my skin (great for girls with dry/normal skin, not so great if you have oily skin). However, you can also use this liquid highlight over top of your foundation, by blending it out with your fingers or a brush. Girl Meets Pearl brings a beautiful glow to my skin, and it can look quite natural when blended out. Girl Meets Pearl is more golden, whereas Benefit's High Beam is a bit silvery.

Blended out on top

Semi-sheered on bottom

If you're a fan of liquid highlighters, then you need to try out any of Benefit's offerings! Benefit definitely knows how to make a good highlighter, and Girl Meets Pearl is no exception. I think that golden highlighters are my favourite (no wonder I'm pretty much done with my pan of NARS' Albatross), so Girl Meets Pearl is perfect for me. Have you tried out Benefit's Girl Meets Pearl, or any of their other liquid highlighters before? :)

This is lovely. "pink champagne" highlighters (as I've dubbed them - gold-tinted pinks, sometimes with a bit of a white-gold finish...as opposed to silver, if that makes sense) work really well with my skin-tone, and this one is no exception. Reminds me to find my wee sample version!

I saw this for $10 at my local Shoppers the other day (massive sale), but I skipped out on this because I wasn't sure what the verdict was. It's still a lovely highlighter, but probably going to skip out on this one as I already own High Beam and Moon Beam!